all three broadcast live video for your media project free video r.t. dot com. syrian rebels are threatening to execute a kidnapped ukrainian journalist if a ransom is not paid reportedly saying a russian and ukrainian citizens should not be allowed to leave syria. britain greece skips its latest installment of bailout funds needed to keep the economy afloat in exchange for a debt by about scheme which many see as counterproductive. and. watchdog resumed talks with iran we look at why many iranians consider quire of energy is not just a matter of necessity but of national pride. welcome

to r.t. world news around the clock kerry just ukrainian journalists kidnapped by syrian rebels faces execution on thursday that's a fifty million dollar ransom is paid. had been working in syria during the conflict helping international media including r.t. european federation of journalists has strongly condemned the targeting reporters making outrageous demands a middle east correspondent for the smear is following developments. the journalist and her coach never was taken hostage in october and no hones the free syrian army has held her for nearly two months they've accused her of being both a russian and a syrian spy she has appeared in two you tube videos that were released earlier by the free syrian army and in one of those she appealed to the embassies of ukraine and russia as well as to the syrian government to meet the demands of the kidnappers it's very difficult to say whether in fact these demands will in fact be made she read

a text in those videos in arabic in which admitted to having participated in the fighting and having worked as a military interpreter with syrian and russian officers but in tears down the authenticity of these videos believing that they were made while she was under do wrists now the ukrainian foreign ministry has also released a statement released last month saying that officials were negotiating for her beliefs but they did not offer for the details. for syrian rebels are reportedly threatening to make russian and ukrainian citizens in syria their targets and prey saying they shouldn't be allowed to leave the country alive meanwhile moscow is warning that the opposition may win the conflict but an unacceptable price multis has the details the russian foreign ministry would not exclude the possibility of the syrian opposition forces being victorious in the military conflict in this country that is according to the deputy foreign minister minister but he stressed once again at what price a completely unacceptable price according to the russian foreign ministry this

victory may come he said that for now it has been claimed that sixty percent of syrian territory is being controlled by the pro or position forces wells forty percent of the territory remaining under the governmental control and if the opposition will be willing to push further this may lead to more casualties with forty thousand people about forty thousand people already killed the death toll could rise to hundreds of thousands of people and this is something russia finds us completely unacceptable and. believing that this price is way too high this statement comes shortly after a conference in morocco finished with around one hundred countries pledging their support to the syrian opposition at the same time the violence is still taking place in the country with several terrorist attacks rocking damascus and the neighboring outskirts of damascus in the last forty eight hours. but washington is accusing damascus of using weapons banned for use in populated areas and its fight

against rebels take a hornberger from the future freedom foundation says the u.s. is deliberately demonizing the syrian government we've heard this stuff before about you know saddam hussein's debbi m d's and he was going to unleash them on the us and mushroom clouds over american cities and it was entirely bogus it was that it was a way to get the american people to support the invasion and occupation of the country and that's what all of this interventionism is all about to install their dictators into power look like how the us empire is not complaining about the dictatorship in bahrain i mean there you've got a hundred military u.s. military base so they've got to stay quiet about that here any and you see what went on in egypt you see in saudi arabia i mean the u.s. has long supported dictatorship saddam hussein was one of the ones they supported and so this is about regime change in the hopes of installing a true pro u.s. regime but as we've learned things don't come out is that as they often plan to be

. well as the u.s. and its allies give full endorsement to the syrian opposition the affairs it may not have control of competence on the ground online we have analysis on who is actually fighting against the government there the tactics they're using. the. eurozone finance ministers have rubber stamp the latest installment of bailout funds for debt with greece the money had been withheld for months and was dependent on athens buying back some of its debt before getting the vital cash injection but peter all of a now reports the deal might not be as good as it appears for the reserve. greece

has given its financial backers something of an early christmas present by buying back a chunk of its debt from them however when they take the wrapping paper off that gift they might find it's a little less which they've asked for as part of a bone to buy back scheme which saw athens buy back its own problems at around thirty four percent of their original value the international monetary fund had expected greece to be able to get its debt situation down to one hundred and twenty four percent overall economic output by twenty twenty that really does not seem likely right now this is because the i.m.f. to say well we won't be lending any more money to any countries that can't pay back their debts however there is a dangerous precedent with this in terms of greece being able to return the money of course private investors private creditors see greece well a lot of banks and a lot of insurance companies are already have to take that hit and it may swell

there's no way we're going to get this cash back from greece but that is subs there that the i.m.f. certainly are not willing to accept right now. for years and biggest banks may soon come under direct policing from brussels a move which could get fun proven by even leaders later on thursday is a key step towards a fully fledged banking union on the continent with national power slowly being concentrated into a single authority and the rules would see all banks with more than thirty billion euros with a significant presence in europe answering directly to the european central bank the steps of the pipeline include a decision on how to close troubled banks. today max kaiser reveals how banks have been getting away with dodgy dealings. and just d.c. to pay one point nine two billion dollars fine to start charges over laundering state and federal authorities decided against and die. being. a money laundering

or a concerns their criminal charges could jump one of the world's largest banks and ultimately disturb the global financial system to. do big. government condones crime and they wonder why the americans are fire because they will murder our fire because they've got the cartridge for the lighter fluid company. you are an atomic experts back in iran to try and make headway with tension surrounding its controversial nuclear program is the first visit since talks with the deadlock in august. team is hoping to get access to some sites suspected of carrying out nuclear activities but there are likely to get inside the parchin military facility which tehran insists is a non-nuclear site saying that inspectors have no right to inspect it iran also

consistently denies its uranium enrichment has military aims despite the lack of evidence proving otherwise israel has repeatedly threatened military action if diplomacy fails. for national reports mutual mistrust between iran and the international community has already claimed victims. three decades of pride followed by three years of mourning. her future husband a young physicist she immediately knew he'd come a long way indeed he went on to become one of iran's leading nuclear scientists and two it all ended one sunny morning in january two thousand and ten. there were three of them to work and then i heard a curable explosion i rushed to see what happened he was lying like this so. i called my screwed my screwed. and i thought he was just scared but then i turned to him there was no freeze just blood. he was the first victim in

a gruesome trend associated with his work since two thousand and ten at least three other nuclear scientists have been murdered in iran doesn't want kids as they were working hard so their country didn't need to beg other nations for no house we have the right acquires this knowledge and feel independent means women series husband began embarking on his nuclear career it was not a life threatening occupation in the seventy's western countries were eager to how to run develop its own nuclear program supplying into with technology with no strings attached that changed when the iranian regime deed was earlier seen as inalienable right became its biggest liability iran. would be emboldened in its pursuit of nuclear weapons billions of dollars have been pumped into the industry before the revolution at the time of the shah why should they give up now just

because western powers say so while iran's nuclear program is now a target of western political discourse there is only suspicion and no internationally recognized evidence that the country's moving towards build an atomic weapon iranian officials believe all this tension is fabricated with the sole purpose to demonize them in the eyes of international community if you have naive in your kitchen and some of the recent concert contour. or noise is very dangerous maybe you want to use it to from. this is very. george king via the perceived fear is that the iranian regime can't be trusted with a nuclear capacity but even those who want a total change of leadership see should be non-negotiable for the country. in the current form by iran. it.

kind of the go if you. want something. i'm going to say which is that it. has been shown that the clock in the living room stopped at the time of his death. the west and iran are equally failing to move forward iran has long insisted on its rights to develop a peaceful nuclear program but suspicion in the west has led to more and more severe sanctions the more iran resists the more the pressure builds and both sides show little sign of giving up and while the west sees only dangerous intentions people here in iran believe it's all down to pride and prejudice. nationality from tehran. when another country that's no stranger to international isolation has recently seen condemnations soar even higher north korea's successful rocket

launchers concerns among its neighbors on the u.n. we ask an expert whether there's a real danger of military confrontation. small britons are in work but joy over the drop in jobless numbers could prove short lived more on that and other international stories after the break. the san bernardino california police force was to shrink by eighty officers this year to cover their budget deficit during a local meeting the chief of police laid out the city's problems the sea is facing waves of gang violence theft drug trafficking both all the prisons completely overcrowded many of these criminals go right back on to the street and there's just nobody to put more police out there to fight them the police chief really only have one solution to offer

a given situation. go home lock your doors and load your gun and you know what actually that's not that bad of a proposition america has always been a country where people been expected to look out for themselves and i appreciate the police chief's honesty but i know the world we live in and i have a feeling that the second some homeowner shoots a guy who jumps over his fence at night that homeowners going to go to jail for life you can't expect that a nineteenth century attitude towards crime will be able to work in a twenty first century world where rapists can sue you because they slipped on your slippery kitchen floor if you want people to be able to defend themselves that's great but you have to allow them the legal liberty to do so or else the criminals will just take over but that's just my opinion. speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world talks about six of the ip interviews

intriguing story are you. trying. to find out more visit our big don't teach dot com. welcome back you're watching r t criticism of north korea successful rocket launch is widening the un security council now threatening what it calls an appropriate response and sponsored speculation of further sanctions against pyongyang i think

to the penalties that. one of its nuclear tests a few years ago when the international community widely sees the known as a step towards enabling north korea to send nuclear tipped warheads change place in which case to be less than however insists it's looking with many to get a suck light into orbit to study crops and weather patterns with cracks but professor frank told r.t. the launch sanctions and pressure on likely to push the country off its mature development course. sanctions are of course an appropriate means to show your political dissatisfaction but in terms of being effective if they are almost useless in terms of north korea sanctions of it applied for decades korea had enough time to find ways around those sanctions the military considers the deal was to try to so i think sanctions while this is symbolical function but they will have little actual effects on korea regarding the u.n. to see a resolution and there are various interpretations that all three are definitely

doesn't believe this resolution is enough to prohibit. all of that launchers for peaceful purposes frankly speaking i do not believe that north korea tends an all out attack on its neighbors this program including nuclear program has purely defensive. purposes it's no sides are interested how war because if you go war in korea both careers will actually is off for a lot as long as the regime is stable and also korea and especially to keep pressure there's no immediate danger of a war breaking out. but as always mortality dot com including today the power all the hypnosis will be tested on a u.s. soldier and claims he has amnesia as prosecutors hope he'll remember the day when he eventually killed five for the servicemen in iraq. and possibly a badly they just felt sorry to see russia thank officials for gaping holes and

there's puddles on the roads. there's no early christmas present for britain the jobless rate has shrunk and its biggest quarterly drop in a decade but it's no reason to pop the champagne just yet the sort of first experience wasn't unexpected fees mooted this week with official statistics say the u.k.'s unemployment rate has fallen by eighty two thousand people between august and i'll tell you well the government might have been acting like christmas is coming early but the cold hard reality is that all of course there are going to be a huge number of people right now he simply don't recognise the picture that they

statistics the painting and the one person is back to work you need to separate out this month's figures from kind of the medium to long term direction of the economy on the right market so we're still giggs on the tail end of the come summer olympics effect we're not sure whether when we start to move out of that period you're going to still see this really strong employment growth particularly amongst young people take for example those all new governments work programs now they have to come along to the job front is part of that program and could be signed up for mandatory unpaid work experience now those people will no longer be included in the unemployment the test thank you very clearly that's very far for a more ordinary people indeed these people on the program themselves would consider it employed so you can see you have to be very careful with this not these statistics giving us do you feel like the government's doing enough to help young people don't see anything around me. i really. and how you find the on the work

program a lot of young people we've spoken to have found it all that helpful most of. the people are looking for the. young person who. never worked before and. of course is not all bad news there are some encouraging signs in those statistics but it's very early days and to conclude the labor market here in the u.k. is back to full health not only be foolhardy it would be dangerous in fact predictions saying that in twenty thirteen we could see unemployment top one million marker again now that could have long term implications for the young labor market here in the united kingdom and right now bertha is on the precipice of entering. and so even millions of workers all across the twenty thirty is looking to be very far

from a happy new. service. fighting the shoving and strong language that's the ukrainian parliament to elect a new speaker it's becoming a familiar sight this time the fists began flying off he's accused former colleagues of betrayal for wanting to run independently outside position activists . around the parliament. country france is off its government as election was criticized by international observers for imprisoning ukraine's opposition leader as well as pro-government media coverage and the ruling party's unfair access to state resources. it's not cross to some other international news. in the west bank dozens of young palestinians have clashed with israeli soldiers use apparently threw stones and bottles before the troops responded with tear gas tensions are high after palestinian teenager was shot by israeli border police on wednesday. denied by the palestinians. riots

broke out in argentina after thirteen people were acquitted in a high profile sex slavery case demonstrators and when authorities threw stones at government buildings and demanded the resignation of judges delivered the verdict suspects were accused of kidnapping person to prostitution top politicians including the country's president come out in support of the protesters. in a state of disaster and some which has been hit by cycle and been no reports of injuries yet but local media say trees are being uprooted and power lines are down mass evacuations have been ordered in several areas including the capital where most roads are caught off the main airport has been shut this have been damaged. the u.s. has admitted to detaining more than two hundred afghan teenagers some as young as thirteen and keeping them locked up for about

a year without charge to report to the u.n. said imprisoning the youngsters was a preventative measure against insurgency marti's and. over the last several years what has been going on is over two hundred afghan teenagers that were captured a detained as a result of the fight against the taliban and al qaeda in afghanistan and held at a u.s. military prison. airbase and the shocking numbers here are that the age of these people was on average sixteen years old a lot of them were a lot younger we're talking about twelve thirteen fourteen year old kids held for an average of a year and curiously in many of these cases we're talking about brothers here who are sitting at a hole and just captured and detained and taken into this military prison because there are six back to being enemy combatants and in many cases it's important to underline here that these teenagers were not wearing military uniforms they were not participating in combat they were just suspected of being enemy combatants and

they were taken in and the u.s. says it's a preventative measure we need to do i do everything we can to make sure these suspected enemy combatants don't return into the battlefield in the cause they're not charged with any crime whatsoever there's no mandatory rule that they need to be provided with legal assistance they're saying that these afghan teenagers were allowed for example to participate in open hearings and defend themselves afghan teenagers defending themselves we have to say that most of the many of them have been released or transferred to the afghan government at this point but many do remain as well as well or in the air in a few minutes to take on america's financial cliff time in the capital account stay with us.

docked in between the russian mainland japan and the sun something i learned is the early of minute on named officer french seafarer who discovered it it is described as the. right off to sakhalin region we'll take a look at what's in store for us here. until two thousand and four the island was part of the boarders own and was completely restricted to visit is now this picture rest place is open to tourists unique plants and animals are its top attraction. treaty has been exploring the deaths of the world sees for several decades but it's here at more your own island where he has finally found what he'd been looking for . the water here is very clear the visibility is very good and the underwater world here is extremely rich i've been to many diving locations across the planet including the. iran tops my list while some go to the cycling region to enjoy the

sights convert the island's nature's riches into a healthy dollar it is home to the biggest seafood processing factory in russia the tonight shock hundreds of thousands of tons of fish get caught in the nets too late to produce delicious salamon caviar and necessary attribute of any feast in russia the owner of the enterprise says a good fishing season can bring in more than one hundred million dollars net profit . extent this is. environmentally the tonight show operates in only and natural habitat and mild climate unique natural sights and delicious seafood suck for a diverse holiday for those who are not afraid to travel ten thousand kilometers from europe the question is whether this distant land would ever be able to become a major tourist destination.

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run i mean very little. good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for wednesday december twelfth two thousand and twelve it's bad interest rate decision day and the fed announced it will expand its bond buying program with forty five billion dollars a month and longer term treasury securities as expected after the conclusion of operation twist at the end of this year speaking of twist though the fed also announced it's now timing interest rate guidance to economic guide posts in these currency wars who's winning who's losing what's the collateral damage the man who wrote the book on it jim rickards is here to discuss plus does devaluing the dollar fuel exports or does innovation and investment do that well if you think it's the latter unfortunately us corporation. cut an estimated one hundred seventy five

billion dollars in investment from two thousand and nine to two thousand and eleven according to s. and p. which calls this un says dana will have reported by the wall street journal we'll talk about that and our interview with m.m.t. economist stephanie calton yesterday spurned so many responses six hundred so far it's been less than twenty four hours it is to get in so much just gushing we'll talk about it in loose change let's get to today's capital account. ok so today the fed announced it's expanding its bond buying which by now has become a bit of a young son to be quite honest it was expected which is alarming that q.e. infinity has become just that and has become the norm perhaps.